Poetry & Writing

Sadaf’s debut poetry collection Sari Reams, was published in November 2013, by UPL. Her poem, Sari Reams, was chosen to represent Bangladesh in BBC Glasgow’s Postcards initiative for the Commonwealth Games in Scotland in 2014.

Her writings have appeared in international publications such as Wasafiri, Weber, Kindlemag, Index on Censorship, Critical Muslim, The Journal of Post-colonial Writing, and Peril.

Her play of monologues ‘Je Kotha jai na bola’ (That which cannot be said), based on Bangladeshi women’s lives, has been performed in various locations in Bangladesh.

She has participated in many literary festivals as a speaker and reciting her poetry, including Hay on Wye, Jaipur Lit Fest, International literature festival Berlin, Lahore Lit Fest, WOW Festival Australia, Lit for Life Festival Chennai, and many others.

Sadaf contributed a chapter to ‘The state of the world’s refugees’, published in Berlin in 2018. Her poetry appears in the recent bestseller The Defiant Optimist by Durreen Shahnaz, and she just finished a film short based on her poem ‘When Rana Plaza Fell’